BenQ FP567s

With several companies offering cheaper, more impressive 15-inch LCDs, there's little reason to choose the BenQ FP567s. It has built-in speakers, but so do the $300 KDS and $350 ViewSonic units we reviewed. And the speakers in this case aren't the sort you'd want to play music on.

The FP567s displays everyday office documents and images reasonably well, and digital photo colors look very good. And though test measurements showed that the unit's peak brightness was a little below average, its contrast ratio is adequate. But on the whole, it had more trouble with our performance tests than its competitors.

With the FP567s, BenQ has introduced a new 16-ms response timeclass-leading performance but still not good enough to eliminate motion artifacts completely in video and fast games. Moreover, after setting the monitor's auto adjust, pixels jittered severely on our pixel phase test, several subtle shades of red were lost in the white background, and gray shades had a blue-green tint on certain DisplayMate test screens.

We are impressed with the user guide, which devotes several pages to driver installation; BenQ also throws in free screen-saver software, but these are hardly major perks. Save $69 and go for the KDS or Planar model.

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